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God Is the Gospel

Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself

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God Is the Gospel

By: John Piper
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John Piper writes, "I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the February 1998 Reader's Digest: A couple "took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . ." Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy."

This book is a passionate call for this generation to make their lives count for eternity. John Piper acknowledges that the risks for those who seek to accomplish something in life - risks in relationships for the sake of righteousness and authenticity, risks with money for the cause of the Gospel, and risks in witnessing to the truth and beauty of Christ. Readers will find their passion for the cross of Christ enlarged as a result of reading this book.

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This book was great. As someone who has never read the Bible in its entirety, I have so many answers now! Thank you for sharing with me the "Good News". Jesus Christ is my glory. Hallelujah!

Holy Moly!

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This is an excellent meditation on the centrality of God in the gospel. A little slow start but it became much better afterwards. This is the type of book that needs to be listened to multiple times to get it all in your mind and heart.

excellent meditation

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What a great book! I love how John Piper focused me on loving God for 5 hours. I love the focus he put on glorifying God in all my life, that the exaltation of God in itself is the best and highest purpose. Piper did such a good job of proving that by the Bible. Glorifying God for the sake of glorifying Him is now part of my life's purpose. I love God! Having a little love/glory fest. :)

I love John Piper

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My favorite part about this work was the concept of how Piper elaborates on the meaning of the term gospel. Specifically, how it is only good news because it’s about the perfect God seeking a relationship with imperfect man.

Great book!

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again Piper paints beautifully the relationship between Christ Jesus and who we are in Him. it causes me to think what Christ Jesus did on the cross and why. image the suffering not in terms of physical but the spiritual. this book caused me to realize it not about religion as much as it is about relationship with Christ Jesus, when the Pharisees trapped/set up the woman in adultery and then drug her out in the street and threw her at Jesus feet, most likely she was naked for all to see, they used her to trick Christ demanding she be stoned, they weren't expecting what ever it was Christ wrote on the ground..one by one they walked away, I wonder what Christ wrote. maybe their names? or their sins of adultery, ,then Jesus stood and asked the shamed and terrified woman "where are your accuser's?" She said they are gone sir and Jesus said" I don't accuse you either, go and sin no more" that is God's grace. God, pure love holiness light came humbly down wrapped in flesh to where we are, so we can better relate with Him, love Him in a way we can understand. image the love He has for us to know the suffering He would endure. On the cross He became our sin fully experiencing the fallout and darkness for every soul paid in full. His gift to us was on the cross paid in full to rise 3 days later, leaving with us the Holy Spirit, our comforter. He gave us the gift of eternal life with the One who loves us more than we can comprehend.

now even more in love with Christ Jesus, my Lord.

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Perhaps the most important message for Christians to hear. The reader was not Piper but the content is what's most important and it is a powerful blessing.

A necessary listen

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one of favorite books of 2020. His explanation of God and our true desire helps me understand God and my goal of being a Christian.

one of favorite books of 2020

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I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook and would recommend it to anyone! As most of Pipers stuff there are a lot of Scripture references to keep up with ... the narrators tone and reading speed made the book very enjoyable - I will work my way through the hard copy next!

Another great book by John Piper - with good narration

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Thank you for presenting the Gospel in an unarguable light. God IS Love. God IS the Gospel.

God IS the Gospel!

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The greatest irony in this book is that the only possibility for the fulfillment of its aim, that is, revelling in the God the gospel proclaims, is never stating where we get the power to do this...never stating clearly what Jonathan Edwards magnificently revealed to us, that God the Father spent God the Son to purchase for us God the Holy Spirit. It is so surprising to me that one so steeped in the works of Jonathan Edwards failed to make this connection. That the Holy Spirit himself is the Delight, the Love, the Joy, the Exhilaration that the Father has known eternally with the Son and the Son eternally with the Father. The Spirit breathes out Holy Scripture, illuminates it, and penetrates the sinful heart in regeneration, creates faith, justifies the sinner joining him to Christ. He Himself is the Spirit of adoption by which we cry "Abba Father!" He Himself is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. This is why Paul says, "Be not drunk with wine but be filled with the Spirit speaking to one another and psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs making Melody in your heart to the Lord." It's so surprising that in all the Bible references listed this one in Ephesians was left out. The Holy Spirit is the one who inspires and empowers us to give the praise the gospel frees us to offer. The book was frustrating in that it left out this incredibly important aspect of gospel truth leaving me feeling guilty and powerless. This is what it means to participate in the divine nature as 2nd Peter informs us. It Is the participation in the love and delight and joy the Father has with the Son and the Son has with the Father. It is a participation in the Spirit, it's about being baptized in the Spirit, it's drinking from the Spirit, breathing in the Spirit is getting caught up in the Eternal dance of Joy and Delight of the Father of the Son by the Holy Spirit. Both John Owen and Jonathan Edwards have treatises on this. this is why it's so surprising that our beautiful brother missed it.

Paul's prayer at the end of Ephesians 3 is a prayer I pray often for myself : For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The Holy Spirit only mentioned in passing in this great work.

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